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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.” That quote was commonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. If you knew you were to die tomorrow, how would you live your very last day? Would you still follow your daily routine or go off the beaten path? Would you …

We tend to associate high-tech with California, innovation, and last but not least, young people. In fact, the older generation is often stereotyped, sometimes quite humourously, as being technology-challenged. Before I continue, I need to first make a confession. Despite my profession as a blogger and my computer science academic background, I was a late …

Lord, Thou knowest better than I myself know that I am getting older and will some day be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me from the craving to straighten out everybody’s affairs. Make me thoughtful, but not moody; helpful but …

A young Toronto woman made international news headlines in 2017 when she had to be rescued from the top of a construction crane, about 25-story high in the air. The question everybody had in mind was why she scaled the crane in the first place. She explained herself in court: I climbed to the top …

I found an absolute gem in the TED talk “What you can do to prevent Alzheimer’s?”. The speaker, a neuroscientist, explained the current theory of the cause of Alzheimer’s disease in an easy to understandable way (‘amyloid plaque buildup in the neural synapses’). She was quick to point out that there is no cure or …